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+import requests
+import os
+import time
+import pandas as pd
+import glob
+import datetime as dt
+
+def verify_dirs_exist():
+    #This notebook requires a few directories
+    dirs = ["download", "download\csv", "download\excel"]
+    for d in dirs:
+        curpath = os.path.abspath(os.curdir) # get current working directory
+        full_path = os.path.join(curpath, d) # join cwd with proposed d
+        create_dir_if_not_exists(full_path)
+
+def create_dir_if_not_exists(full_path):
+    # expects a full path to the directory to test against or to create.
+    if not os.path.exists(full_path):
+        os.makedirs(full_path)
+        print("Created directory ", full_path)
+    else:
+        print("Directory ", full_path, " already existed")
+
+def generate_file_name_from_url(url):
+    month_year = url.split("\\")[-1].split("_")[-1].split(".")[0]
+    month = month_year[:2]
+    year = month_year[2:]
+    new_file_name = "ZIP-COUNTY-FIPS_"+year + "-" + month
+    return new_file_name
+
+def get_file_path(url, csv_file=False):
+    "Takes in the full url and returns the full file path"
+    "File names are ZIP_COUNTY_032010.xlsx"
+    curpath = os.path.abspath(os.curdir) #get current working directory
+    full_path = ''
+    if csv_file:
+        #If we are passing in a csv, change xlsx to .csv
+        csv_file_name = url.split("\\")[-1][:-5] + ".csv"
+        full_path = os.path.join(curpath, "download\csv", csv_file_name)
+    else:
+        url_name = url.split('/')[-1] # gets file name
+        #switching file names to be YYYY-MM for better file management
+        url_file_name = generate_file_name_from_url(url) + ".xlsx"
+        full_path = os.path.join(curpath, "download\excel", url_file_name)
+    return full_path
+
+def download_file(url):
+    #With a full url, downloads the full file in chunks.
+    #Able to handle large files.
+    full_file_path = get_file_path(url)
+    r = requests.get(url)
+    with open(full_file_path, 'wb') as f:
+        for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
+            if chunk: # filter out keep-alive new chunks
+                f.write(chunk)
+    return full_file_path
+
+"""
+Census State & County FIPS Data
+HUD uses ZIP & FIPS data. We need to grab the FIPS to county
+name data to be able to merge and create the cross lookup
+"""
+
+census_fips_url = "https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/codes/files/national_county.txt"
+#the FIPS data does not come with column names
+census_col_names = ["STATE","STATEFP","COUNTYFP","COUNTYNAME","CLASSFP"]
+
+# Open url, read in the data with the column names, and convert specific columns to str.
+# When Pandas reads these columns, it automatilcally intrepets them as INTS
+fips_df = pd.read_table(
+    census_fips_url,
+    sep=",",
+    names=census_col_names,
+    converters={'STATEFP': str,'COUNTYFP': str,'CLASSFP': str}
+)
+
+# Combine State & County FP to generate the full FIPS code for easier lookup
+fips_df["STCOUNTYFP"] = fips_df["STATEFP"] + fips_df["COUNTYFP"]
+#Dropping STATFP & COUNTYFP as we no longer need them
+fips_df = fips_df[["STCOUNTYFP", "STATE" ,"COUNTYNAME", "CLASSFP"]]
+
+# Get current year to handle future runs of this file
+now = dt.datetime.now()
+cur_year = now.year
+
+def get_files_url(month, year):
+    monthyear = month + str(year)
+    return "https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/usps/ZIP_COUNTY_{}.xlsx".format(monthyear)
+
+"""
+Main loop
+"""
+def main()
+    # from the beginning of hud year data to current year
+    for year in range(2010, cur_year+1):
+        #hud files are based on quarters
+        for month in ["03", "06", "09", "12"]:
+            #generate the HUDs url
+            url = get_files_url(month, year)
+            #download the file
+            full_file_path = download_file(url)
+            #open and get the excel dataframe
+            excel_df = process_excel_file(full_file_path)
+            #merge the excel file with the fips data
+            merged_df = fips_df.merge(excel_df)
+            #reduce the dataframe down to specific columns
+            merged_df = merged_df[["ZIP", "COUNTYNAME", "STATE", "STCOUNTYFP", "CLASSFP"]]
+            #generate a csv file path
+            csv_path = get_file_path(full_file_path, True)
+            print(csv_path)
+            try:
+                merged_df.to_csv(csv_path, encoding='utf-8', index=False)
+            except:
+                #once we get to a Q that hasn't happened yet, we'll get an XLDRerror
+                print("Operation has completed")
+                break
+
+            # prevent from overloading the HUD site and to be a nice visitor
+            time.sleep(1)
+            print("Completed ", csv_path)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    verify_dirs_exist()
+    main()